Sokari Ekine

Documentary Photographer, Visual Scholar
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Location: New Orleans
Nationality: Nigerian British
Biography: Sokari Ekine, Photography Sokari Ekine, Black Looks Blog Sokari is a Nigerian British visual scholar, writer, and activist.  She has lived and worked in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the US.  Her work focuses on decolonization,... read on
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Photo Stories 2019 [7:] Nothing Matters
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Mar 28, 2019
Nothing Matters is the title of a poem which inspired a collection of poems and other writings by the same name. The collection was released in March 2017. Nothing matters expresses the frustration with injustice in Jamaica and the coming to terms with the nature of life as a result of it. DJ Afifa


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The Empty Quarter - Covid-19

By Sokari Ekine / New Orleans, Louisiana — The Empty Quarter:  The Mississippi River  in the Time of Covid-19 New Orleans is one of the major..
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Working the Spirit: Rituals of the African Diaspora

By Sokari Ekine — EXHIBITION:  Working the Spirit: Rituals of the African Diaspora  is an exhibition curated by Dr...
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AfroFuture, Ground Zero Exhibition

By Sokari Ekine / New Orleans — EXHIBITION : An exhibition showcasing contemporary work by artists, creatives, and designers engaging in..
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Lovership, We Are Sacred Space. [Pride]

By Sokari Ekine — Julia Sangodare Roxanne Wallace and Alexis Pauline Gumbs – the fourth in the series transformation of..
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Tales of the City - PRIDE

By Sokari Ekine — I'm proud to be included in the promotion of   #TalesOfYourCity , in my adopted home of New..
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Queer! Like Fearlessness to Imagine

By Sokari Ekine / Brasília, Brazil — Celebrating PRIDE “Not queer like gay. Queer like, escaping definition. Queer like some sort of..
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Exhibition: ALTAR: Prayer, Ritual, Offering

By Sokari Ekine — Photoville Los Angeles   Photograph by Sokari Ekine from the Takasa series, queering the spiritual..
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Exhibition: Memento Mori

By Sokari Ekine — Memento Mori an exhibition on the fragility of human life. At the Second Floor Gallery, St Claude, New..
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Book: Spirit Desire

By Sokari Ekine — For the past 18 months I have been working on producing my first photo book on Haitian Vodoun.  ..
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2019 Projects in progress

By Sokari Ekine — As a way of exploring queerness and it’s relationship to spirituality and ritual practices and..
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